GM and others shutting down production.

wanderingaimlessly wrote:
The problem over the minimum wage is that folks have lost sight of what it is, and was.
Does flippin burgers for 8-10 hours in a 110 degree kitchen suck?
Answer is yes, and IT SHOULD.
People nowadays seem to think flippin burgers or running a cash register is a career.
NEWS ALERT IT's NOT
The fact that those jobs suck is supposed to be a motivator to make the poor schmuck working them get some training so they can have a better job with higher pay.
But the "Fight for 15" crowd is too stupid and lazy to get the training or think hard enough to get the better job with higher pay, and we are expected to make up for their deficiencies.

Another example of Americans needing to be more skeptical about what they are told
Every time I see or hear something like this I have to wonder; Has the speaker ever spent a day on a auto assembly line? Or working in a coal mine? I worked putting the same 2 bolts in holes, and tightening a couple somebody else put in for 4 shifts back in the late '60s. Not real fulfilling work, under comfortable conditions. But many thousands of people that where working that line had rewarding lives because the work paid enough for them to have a middle class lifestyle, they worked to live, not lived to work.
Most people think "flipping burgers" is only a afterschool job for highschool kids. News flash, that has never been true. And a little logic would prove that, if you just look at their open/closed sign. How many are closed 7-3:30 weekdays? A very high percentage of the labor bill of a fast food place goes to adults, many who hold the job because the can get off when school is out, take care of their kids.
Now I mentioned coal miners and auto workers for a reason. Read a little history, what was working conditions before UAW, and miners unions forced the companies to raise the pay of workers. A very small percentage of the workers advanced to "better jobs" This was what caused the greatest growth in middle class in this country. And to this day everybody that works for their money only works because of the spending power of the middle class.
Now explain how the mother flipping buggers to feed her family is less deserving of a living wage than the man hanging fenders on a model A?